Dr Seuss... but even more warped!
Green Eggs and Ham? Pah! Yesterdays delicacy. What all the hip kids want now is Green Ham and Eggs, hence the newly spawned green pigs in Taiwan (yep, that place again). And we ain't talking 'green' as in 'good for the planet' and all that. We're talking fluor-fucking-escent green pigs snuffling around the sty and attracting moths at night!
This has all been taking place at the National Taiwan University where pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein by pissed-up undergrads with fuck all better to do. Or maybe that should read 'by researchers. With nothing better to do'. The results have caused great excitement with Professor Wu Shinn-chih from the Department of Playing God (or was that the dept. of Animal Science and Technology) rubbishing other 'partially-fluorescent' pigs elsewhere in the world. "Ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out!" he boasted. "Even their hearts and internal organs are green!"
If I ever get a rasher of radioactive bacon served up for brekkie it'll be my internal organs turning fucking green, I promise you.
On a final note... with all the complaints about expanding towns bringing light pollution to rural areas and nature-lovers not being able to see a decent starry night any more aren't glow-in-the-dark farmyard animals just exacerbating the problem?
Cheers m'dears!
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i'm so glad that they've discovered how to make pigs glow in the dark.. now that they've cured most of the worlds diseases..
.... as well as curing bacon?
Wait, let me get this straight.
They injected an embryo with a flourescent protein and this resulted in the organism generating its own flourescent compounds from that point forward?
Seems a bit hard to believe, since I don't see any genetic manipulation being perpetrated upon the swine. What gland is being subverted to the task of flourescent compount production?
I heard this in the car. I still don't know WHY? They said they had used DNA from a jellyfish.
Oh Binty, i wonder if you would mind explaining my funny joke at lindyk's. It is comment 30 of 32 and is very good. Obviously I can't.
OK Binty - time to put some of this creativity of yours to some use. A new online comic strip – Blunt Cogs – is underway and could star you, if you want to create a cartoon version of yourself and/or fancy writing a strip or 2. Visit http://bluntcogs.blogspot.com/ for more details
Doc and El B, I'll check them both out...
SafeT - What? Eh? I ain't no scientist, y'know!
Hows about a glowing Haggis?
Wahey! What an idea...
Fluorescent honest, sonsie face,
Green chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Just need radioactive neeps n tatties to go along with it.
mmmm bacon...
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